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[tunnie]

... does anyone know of a decent bulk IP whois lookup service?

I am going to have a huge list of gateways which i need to look up, to find the carrier they came from.

Last time it was limited numbers and i just did a manual request on linux box, but don't really wanna do that 200 times.

[PaulW]

you still have access to a linux box??  if so, export the IP addresses into a file (one per line), and then create the following bash script
whois_bulk.sh

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#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat $1`
do
  whois $i > whois_$i
done

set the file to executable (chmod +x whois_bulk.sh) and then run it
./whois_bulk.sh inputiplist.txt

it will create a seperate whois for each IP address (whois_xx.xx.xx.xx), and so-on...

[PaulW]

also, if you want to stop the whois servers going haywire, after the line

whois $1 > $whois_$i

put

sleep 2

to make it wait 2 seconds (increase/decrease as required)

Also, if you want certain parts, grep the output (if you just want descr tags)

whois $1 | grep descr > $whois_$i

will return:

gsi ~ # whois 217.155.56.220 | grep descr
descr:        Mr Jaime Lett
descr:        ADSL
descr:        Zen Internet Ltd

(although i called that straight from console, the output will be the same in the result files)

[tunnie]

cheers, that looks like a neat way to do it.

Might have to put the sleep in there, most of our boxes are blacklisted from whois  

[ians]

I think we need a foreign language sub forum

[PaulW]

 

[tunnie]

I think we need a foreign language sub forum

You mean a superior language sub forum?    

[ians]

I can think of a number of adjectives but superior is not one of them